I believe it's not healthy to obsess over past lives, as the current one matters most. However, it's an intriguing subject.

Do you believe that meditation can surface some past-life recall?

I am sure I had at least one REAL past life (as opposed to possibly imagined), because I had some spontaneous memories as a child, but they are very vague now. I remember telling my mom about them at about age 4 or 5.

Lately I've tried some self-hypnosis videos and I got some images. I have a feeling of "ugh" about these visions, like revisiting a time period I would not want to return. Like a bad taste I have long outgrown. I feel like I just don't wanna go back there.

The images themselves were just bits and pieces of things. I saw a couple of different cars, some places, and some people. I saw a vision of myself looking in a mirror, pregnant. I think I've seen three different lives from various times, and none of them were very exciting. I was basically the SAME PERSON I AM NOW in all these lives, in similar circumstances, just different time periods. But the biggest thing was that I seemed really unhappy and bored. It is a gross feeling.

In one meditation I saw a broken window and blood in the bathtub. I saw that right before the video ended and I woke up from my trance after that so I didn't get to explore it. I am so curious what happened there.

But, I don't know if these things might just be imagination.

Have you had any past-life memories, and would you say that these memories are legit?

I believe your emotional response to any kind of vision is what distinguishes it between a real memory vs 'just' imagination. But actually I don't think it matters much what you call it. If it had an effect on you, made you feel something, made you think, and realize something about yourself, then it is a valuable message and helped you grow in your awareness. And that's all that matters in the end.

I had one vision I'm pretty sure was a past life memory as I have nothing to compare it to in my current life. As with you, it happened during a meditation, and it made me aware of my deepest fear, so deep it's utterly crippling. In the vision I saw myself standing in a small village of old times, straw huts, bare earth, probably African desert, we would consider it a very poor lifestyle nowadays, but maybe at the time this was how people lived. Anyway, I was standing in my village which was destroyed from war, completely destroyed. Everyone but me was dead, even the animals slaughtered. The huts were destroyed, burning. I stood there crying, and crying, and crying. Everything had been taken from me, everyone and everything I loved was dead and burned. I had nothing left and my heart was shattered. This vision, whether a real past life memory or not, made me aware of my deep fear of war and violence, of being torn away from everyone I love in an instant, and have nothing and noone left. As I said, it's a crippling fear that comes over me on occasion, and fills me with mistrust and anxiety. But I'm grateful to have been made aware of it, so I can see how it influences my current day choices and actions from deep within me. Hopefully one day I will be able to overcome it, or let it go, and be free.

Your visions might be trying to tell or show you something or remind you of something too. I would say go with your emotional responses - "ugh" and "gross" and "bored" etc and try to make a connection to your current life.

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Becuase if Delete was available people could go back and delete their post which could make the entire thread broken and not understandable if someone has referenced a post later and then it gets deleted